India takes tourism to China, health & IT services to follow

[Rahul9090]

NEW DELHI: India is readying a plan to step up its engagement with China big time, especially in the services sector. The tourism ministry will be running the 'Incredible India' campaign in Chinese media in the coming months besides introducing Chinese audio recordings at popular Indian monuments and providing training to guides to attract more tourists from the country.

New Delhi is also closely working with Beijing to ease market access barriers for Indian services exports in sectors like IT, tourism and health, which will not only help balance the wide merchandise trade deficit but also ensure better integration of the two large Asian economies. The commerce department is in talks with its Chinese counterpart for mutual recognition of medical degrees that will allow movement of Indian doctors to China.

In IT, government is pushing for easing of licencing norms to allow participation of Indian companies in local projects. Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will visit India in October to hold talks with Indian IT players.

The move is an attempt to leverage India's strength to balance the merchandise trade deficit, which stood at $35 billion in 2013-14 against just $1.08 billion in 2001-02. While India's services exports stand at around $150 billion, exports to China account for just about $1 billion.

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi concluded his two-day visit to India on Tuesday during which he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, where he expressed keenness to forge stronger ties with India through investment in infrastructure besides importing more from India.

"Services side cooperation should have been quite substantial. The two governments and the private sector have started engaging in specifics to ease market access barriers and tap opportunities, which will be of interest to both the economies," said a commerce department official. Recently India announced making visa process easy for Chinese visitors under which tourist and business visas will be processed in two working days.

CII along with ministry of commerce and industry led a 45-member multi-sectoral services delegation to China from May 2 8 to June 1. IT/ITeS constitutes about 62 per cent of India's overall services exports, of which China does not even constitute 1 per cent.

Last week, about 31 state-owned enterprises of China had a roundtable with Indian IT companies, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Nasscom, etc. to understand procedures and requirements of the Chinese market. The Chinese market is dominated by SOEs.

The licensing procedures in IT for China are seen as very cumbersome and onerous. Minimum local qualification threshold, requirement of incorporation of local company, minimum investment requirement, among others, are a prerequisite to qualify in the bidding procedure for Chinese IT projects and are seen as barriers.

"We have suggested that they take advantage of global competitiveness of the company and not insist on local project management qualification requirement. Also, the requirement to have a local company and minimum investment puts Indian companies at a lot of disadvantage," said the official.

"To be successful in the Chinese market, Indian service providers must learn how to adapt to local conditions," said Chandrajit Banerjee, director-general, CII.


India takes tourism to China, health & IT services to follow - The Economic Times

 

[Dandpatta]

Indian tourist cities need a huge clean up ! Taj Mahal for example is great to see .. but the city of Agra is a .... you guessed it.

 

[dlclong]

This is a good thing.

But first of all, India should be more to protect the safety of foreigners during the travel.

Secondly traveling in India are often all kinds of people cheating, such as By car, buy things,

 

[Tractor]

Arunachal and Sikkim are not destinations for Chinese for some limits made by Indian government or Indian army.

And the Taj Mahal just see the pictures is enough.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

The problem with exporting services to China, is that you need to have a decent level of skill in speaking Chinese at least, and ideally some ability to read Chinese characters.

India is easier for service imports/exports because most Indians have some ability to communicate in the English language.

 

[Dandpatta]

The problem with exporting services to China, is that you need to have a decent level of skill in speaking Chinese at least, and ideally some ability to read Chinese characters.

India is easier for service imports/exports because most Indians have some ability to communicate in the English language.

Bro - scene is slowly changing in India. Few schools have already given Mandarin as a language option. In the 80s and 90s, many graduates were taking up Japanese as the preferred foreign language to learn. Now, it is Mandarin. And you have to give credit to us - we learn langauges fast You have seen how Indians (amongst ALL expatriates in HK, are the first to learn cantonese)

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Bro - scene is slowly changing in India. Few schools have already given Mandarin as a language option. In the 80s and 90s, many graduates were taking up Japanese as the preferred foreign language to learn. Now, it is Mandarin. And you have to give credit to us - we learn langauges fast You have seen how Indians (amongst ALL expatriates in HK, are the first to learn cantonese)

Yes I agree, Indians seem to know more languages on average than most other people. Some Indian members here can speak well over 10 languages, with around half of them Indian languages and the rest foreign.

So there is certainly the possibility that Indian services exports to China could improve in the future.

However, if India were to build a stronger manufacturing base (as is likely under Modi) it would be much easier to bridge the trade deficit for them, since tangible products are not disadvantaged by the language barrier in the first place.

 

[wolfschanzze]

A Good Development for both countries.

 

[ephone]

IT cooperation, it may be.

Tourism, I doubt it.

Chinese tourists now like to buy stuff. India does have historical sites but Chinese people seem to be less and less interested in historical places but shopping malls...

NEW DELHI: India is readying a plan to step up its engagement with China big time, especially in the services sector. The tourism ministry will be running the 'Incredible India' campaign in Chinese media in the coming months besides introducing Chinese audio recordings at popular Indian monuments and providing training to guides to attract more tourists from the country.

New Delhi is also closely working with Beijing to ease market access barriers for Indian services exports in sectors like IT, tourism and health, which will not only help balance the wide merchandise trade deficit but also ensure better integration of the two large Asian economies. The commerce department is in talks with its Chinese counterpart for mutual recognition of medical degrees that will allow movement of Indian doctors to China.

In IT, government is pushing for easing of licencing norms to allow participation of Indian companies in local projects. Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will visit India in October to hold talks with Indian IT players.

The move is an attempt to leverage India's strength to balance the merchandise trade deficit, which stood at $35 billion in 2013-14 against just $1.08 billion in 2001-02. While India's services exports stand at around $150 billion, exports to China account for just about $1 billion.

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi concluded his two-day visit to India on Tuesday during which he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, where he expressed keenness to forge stronger ties with India through investment in infrastructure besides importing more from India.

"Services side cooperation should have been quite substantial. The two governments and the private sector have started engaging in specifics to ease market access barriers and tap opportunities, which will be of interest to both the economies," said a commerce department official. Recently India announced making visa process easy for Chinese visitors under which tourist and business visas will be processed in two working days.

CII along with ministry of commerce and industry led a 45-member multi-sectoral services delegation to China from May 2 8 to June 1. IT/ITeS constitutes about 62 per cent of India's overall services exports, of which China does not even constitute 1 per cent.

Last week, about 31 state-owned enterprises of China had a roundtable with Indian IT companies, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Nasscom, etc. to understand procedures and requirements of the Chinese market. The Chinese market is dominated by SOEs.

The licensing procedures in IT for China are seen as very cumbersome and onerous. Minimum local qualification threshold, requirement of incorporation of local company, minimum investment requirement, among others, are a prerequisite to qualify in the bidding procedure for Chinese IT projects and are seen as barriers.

"We have suggested that they take advantage of global competitiveness of the company and not insist on local project management qualification requirement. Also, the requirement to have a local company and minimum investment puts Indian companies at a lot of disadvantage," said the official.

"To be successful in the Chinese market, Indian service providers must learn how to adapt to local conditions," said Chandrajit Banerjee, director-general, CII.


India takes tourism to China, health & IT services to follow - The Economic Times

 

[Dandpatta]

ephone - I beg to disagree. The Chinese , overall are very 'cosmetic' tourists. What I mean by that term is the typical 'mall - shopper' , brand shopper, high end luxury goods buyer. But there is a huge segment of the Chinese tourist industry that is also interested in going places off the beaten track. The number of Chinese who go to Egypt / Tunisia or even countries like those in East Africa is a testament that this segment is growing. Club Med holiday resorts are nowadays mostly comprised of Chinese nationals apart from the usual anglosaxon tourists. Not all Chinese want to buy bagloads of powdered milk and Versaces and Guccis.

But that said, I will maintain - at the risk of sounding too critical - that a thousand Indian tourist / monument places need a thorough clean up . My trip to Aurangabad's Daulatabad Fort and Biwi Ka Maqbara was nothing but an embarassment. Chaotic, messy, dis-organised, slip-shod, infrastructure. Bijapur, again , another great historical relic of a city, is virtually thrown to the pigs in terms of hygeine ! Agra's Taj Mahal - already given you guys examples

Modi's govt should include TOURISM ministry with ROAD and Transport ministry + Civic Hygeine. It doesn't bode well when you have a glowing monument that has stood over centuries has roads that are reminiscent of a Safari in Africa and basic amenities thrown in without any due consideration, nor planning.

Many Indian Tourism Industry officials have completely missed out one logic about tourism. You want visitors to come again and again, give them clean infrastructure. Not everyone is a budget pressed back-packer !

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

ephone - I beg to disagree. The Chinese , overall are very 'cosmetic' tourists. What I mean by that term is the typical 'mall - shopper' , brand shopper, high end luxury goods buyer. But there is a huge segment of the Chinese tourist industry that is also interested in going places off the beaten track. The number of Chinese who go to Egypt / Tunisia or even countries like those in East Africa is a testament that this segment is growing. Club Med holiday resorts are nowadays mostly comprised of Chinese nationals apart from the usual anglosaxon tourists. Not all Chinese want to buy bagloads of powdered milk and Versaces and Guccis.

But that said, I will maintain - at the risk of sounding too critical - that a thousand Indian tourist / monument places need a thorough clean up . My trip to Aurangabad's Daulatabad Fort and Biwi Ka Maqbara was nothing but an embarassment. Chaotic, messy, dis-organised, slip-shod, infrastructure. Bijapur, again , another great historical relic of a city, is virtually thrown to the pigs in terms of hygeine ! Agra's Taj Mahal - already given you guys examples

Modi's govt should include TOURISM ministry with ROAD and Transport ministry + Civic Hygeine. It doesn't bode well when you have a glowing monument that has stood over centuries has roads that are reminiscent of a Safari in Africa and basic amenities thrown in without any due consideration, nor planning.

Many Indian Tourism Industry officials have completely missed out one logic about tourism. You want visitors to come again and again, give them clean infrastructure. Not everyone is a budget pressed back-packer !

Might want to attract more overseas Buddhists as well, especially from East Asia.

How is Bodh Gaya as a tourist destination nowadays?

 

[Dandpatta]

^^ Never been to Bodh Gaya - so I won't comment buddy